Newsroom Stories

The Sustainable Land Lab project, a partnership between WUSTL and the City of St. Louis, officially broke ground May 18. The lab will tranform vacant lots in Old North St. Louis into assets to advance sustainability and community involvement. Winning projects include a chess garden and a restaurant made from a surplus cargo container.

Matthew W. Kreuter, PhD, professor and director of the Brown School’s Health Communication Research Laboratory (HCRL), has been named associate dean for public health, according to Edward F. Lawlor, PhD. dean and the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor. The appointment is effective July 1.

PARC and I-CARES recently honored three seniors who completed the Certificate in Renewable Energy and the Environment, which allows students to pursue interdisciplinary energy studies in addition to their academic major.

Tae Seok Moon, PhD, assistant professor of energy, environmental & chemical engineering, has been named a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Moon will pursue an innovative global health and development research project titled “Programmed Killing of Parasite Eggs by Probiotic Organisms.”

A new diagnostic test for a worm infection that eventually leads to severe enlargement and deformities of the legs and genitals is far more sensitive than the current test, according to results of a field study in Liberia, in West Africa, led by Washington University researchers, including Kurt Curtis.

Cory A. Booker, the mayor of Newark, N.J., told the more than 2,700 WUSTL graduates to focus on being “first class” in character, to never give up and to focus on performing small acts of kindness. Booker spoke at the university’s 152nd Commencement celebration.

The Class of 2013 and nearly 12,000 of its closest family and friends celebrated Commencement Friday. For a complete look at all the festivities, visit WUSTL’s 2013Grad website. Here, you will find Twitter and Facebook feeds and hundreds of photos from the day’s events in a Flickr collection. 

Read the full text of Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s speech at Washington University in St. Louis’ 152nd Commencement May 17, 2013.

Read the full text of Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton’s message to the graduates at Washington University in St. Louis’ 152nd Commencement ceremony May 17, 2013.

Friday, May 17, is National Bike to Work Day. For nearly 20 years, School of Medicine faculty Laura Bierut and Brad Evanoff have been riding their bikes to work. Earlier this week, they rode their tandem bike to the Medical Campus. The two encourage others to ride their bikes to work, too.